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The Power Plant<br />
231 Queens Quay West, <strong>Toronto</strong> ON M5J 2G8, Canada<br />
Tel: 416 973 4949 Email: thepowerplant@harbourfrontcentre.com Web: www.thepowerplant.org<br />
The Power Plant is Canada’s leading public gallery devoted exclusively to the art of our time and is recognized as an<br />
important center for contemporary art in North America. The Power Plant has gained an unparalleled reputation for<br />
presenting cutting edge exhibitions, superior catalogues and editions, and challenging special events.<br />
Ian Wallace: The Economy of the Image<br />
9 October, 2010 – 2 January, 2011<br />
A major new project featuring the commissioned series<br />
Abstract Paintings I-XII (The Financial District).<br />
‘Ian Wallace: The Economy of the Image’ marks the premiere of a new project by<br />
Canadian artist Ian Wallace as part of the gallery’s Commissioning Program. This is a<br />
major, multi-part series of photo-lamination paintings referencing photographs taken<br />
by the artist in the heart of Canada’s most important financial district in downtown<br />
<strong>Toronto</strong>. With this significant site-specific project, Wallace not only continues a career<br />
spanning four decades that examines the aesthetic and social legacies of modernism,<br />
but in this new work, reflects specifically on the context of <strong>Toronto</strong> in a manner that<br />
will resonate both nationally and internationally at a time when the international<br />
currency of his practice is burgeoning. Curated by Director of The Power Plant Gregory<br />
Burke.<br />
Ian Wallace, Abstract Painting III<br />
(The Financial District) (detail), 2010.<br />
Courtesy the artist and Catriona Jeffries<br />
Gallery, Vancouver.<br />
Presenting Sponsors<br />
RBC<br />
Rogers Communications<br />
Pae White: Material Mutters<br />
9 October, 2010 – 2 January, 2011<br />
A major new project featuring the commissioned tapestry Sea Beast.<br />
‘Pae White: Material Mutters’ features a monumental tapestry by Los Angeles-based<br />
artist Pae White as part of the gallery’s Commissioning Program. This commission<br />
will be the centrepiece of this survey of her past tapestries of epic scale, as well as<br />
video animations and works on paper. White examines the intersections of art, design,<br />
applied arts, and architecture while ignoring the traditional boundaries between<br />
them. The commission signals a new visual direction in her work while representing<br />
her continued practice of blurring materials and appropriating scraps and ephemera.<br />
Curated by Director Gregory Burke.<br />
Catalogue Supporters<br />
Steven & Lynda Latner<br />
Laura Rapp & Jay Smith<br />
Hours<br />
Tuesday – Sunday 12 – 6 pm<br />
Wednesday 12 – 8 pm<br />
Open holiday Mondays<br />
Pae White, Sea Beast (detail), 2010.<br />
Source for commissioned tapestry.<br />
Courtesy the artist<br />
Each exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, available for purchase at The Power Plant.<br />
2010 Commissioning Program Partner<br />
Shanitha Kachan & Gerald Sheff<br />
2010 Commissioning Program Supporters<br />
Liza Mauer & Andrew Sheiner<br />
Nancy McCain & Bill Morneau<br />
Elisa Nuyten & David Dime<br />
40 Museums and Cultural Institutions of Ontario
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